Hubris

To look again and by that single look

not quite see the certain paths we took;

not that they, the paths, were any less

than often taken by the more or less

adventurous among us: you and me,

a few others (stragglers) to make "we"

seem credible (or at least desirable)

to our naive, if not quite risible

intentions, held too easily, perhaps;

bereft of doubt, oblivious of traps,

contemptuous of reticence,

dismissive of all pretence,

the inauthentic, the less than wholly true

which we, alone, then knew we knew.

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